Digital Citizenship vs. Piracy Looking for one solution to a real problem
INTRODUCTION Every single day a huge group of people around the world invest a lot of time, money, intellectual knowledge and human talent to develop, design or modify hardware and software to make our life easier. Some of them work in big companies, other ones do it by themselves. However, their work is at risk to be copied illegally and if this happens, they won’t receive the benefits from their work. The question is… Who can be affected when piracy in technology appears?Is it possible stop piracy in technology? How? TASK Working in groups of three you must: ·Team work:Prepare a variety of information that will be distributed electronically to your friends. Also you will collaborate to enrich this Wiki by adding as much information as possible to cover all roles point of view. You must select one role: ÞAnthropologist: You will focus on social impact, you are thinking in consequences for humanity as a group. Using Livebinders.com, you will prepare and share a digital collection of evidences (web sources, images, videos, news, current events, statistics, etc.) about the impact of piracy in technology for our society. Based on your research you should write a blogg article about "Piracy in Technology and it's social impact".ÞLawyer: You will focus on legal issues, you are interested in protecting author’s rights and punishing those who take advantage of other people’s work. Using Mixbook.com, you will design a digital illustrated magazine to promote copyrights emphasizing legal punishment in Mexico and USA. ÞCommunications specialist: You will focus on informing people, you are sure that eliminating ignorance about copyright will reduce the piracy problem. You must select between **Bitstrips.com**(digital comic strip) or Kerpoof.com (digital animated story) to design two digital comics/stories informing the "10 tips about copyrights that everyone should know". One strip for USA laws, it should be done in English and other for Mexican laws, it should be in Spanish. · Individual: Write a MLA written report to establish your hypothesis about one possible piracy situation presented in the movie “Pirates of Silicon Valley” (TNT, 1999). Establish if it was a piracy issue or not from your role point of view. Justify (legal, social, ethical and moral point of view) Note: “Pirates of Silicon Valley” (TNT, 1999) is based in the book “Fire in the Valley” (Freiberger & Swained, 1999). All the ideas presented in the movie are responsibility of it’s authors. PROCEDURE:
1. Define roles and responsibilities. 2. Pay attention to the movie “Pirates of Silicon Valley” (TNT, 1999), specially in each of the follow situation: ÞOrigin of the first personal computer. ÞOrigin of the first operating system for PC and compatible (DOS). ÞOrigin of the first mouse and GUI (Graphic User Interface). ÞOrigin of the first Windows.
3. After each session you will post your comments and replay someone else in our wiki disscussion board answering the follow questions: ÞWhy this situation is or not a piracy issue? Justify. ÞWho is the affected side and what should you do if you were in this situation? Explain. 4. Prepare your individual material according with your role focusing in our essential question: Who can be affected when piracy in technology appears?Is it possible stop piracy in technology? How? 5. Go back to our discussion board answering the main essential questions. This time you must base your opinion on your research and role point of view.
Now you are an important piece of our learning community... Well done!!! Other recommended material.- The Social Network (2010) available on teathers right now!!! Timeline
Activity
8A
8B
Evidence
Finishing the movie
Feb. 14th
Feb. 11th
Discussion board posting – Four situations
Choosing team members and responsibilities
Feb. 14th
Feb. 17th
Worksheet
Research and individual work begin
Feb. 15th
Feb. 17th
Sharing your URL or embed code in your role page (in process)
Constructing the wiki. You must add a piece of interesting and useful information to our wiki every single class. It could be in Resources, Glossary or your role page.
Feb. 15th– Feb. 25th
Feb. 17th – Feb. 25th
Recent Changes section
Final product
Feb. 25th
- Wiki should show a variety of information about copyrights and intellectual property. (All students MUST collaborate) - Your individual work must be finished and published in the wiki in your assigned page. - Your Blog article final version must be published in our Piracy Project Blog.
Looking for one solution to a real problem
INTRODUCTION
Every single day a huge group of people around the world invest a lot of time, money, intellectual knowledge and human talent to develop, design or modify hardware and software to make our life easier. Some of them work in big companies, other ones do it by themselves. However, their work is at risk to be copied illegally and if this happens, they won’t receive the benefits from their work. The question is…
Who can be affected when piracy in technology appears? Is it possible stop piracy in technology? How?
TASK
Working in groups of three you must:
· Team work: Prepare a variety of information that will be distributed electronically to your friends. Also you will collaborate to enrich this Wiki by adding as much information as possible to cover all roles point of view. You must select one role:
Þ Anthropologist: You will focus on social impact, you are thinking in consequences for humanity as a group. Using Livebinders.com, you will prepare and share a digital collection of evidences (web sources, images, videos, news, current events, statistics, etc.) about the impact of piracy in technology for our society. Based on your research you should write a blogg article about "Piracy in Technology and it's social impact".Þ Lawyer: You will focus on legal issues, you are interested in protecting author’s rights and punishing those who take advantage of other people’s work. Using Mixbook.com, you will design a digital illustrated magazine to promote copyrights emphasizing legal punishment in Mexico and USA.
Þ Communications specialist: You will focus on informing people, you are sure that eliminating ignorance about copyright will reduce the piracy problem. You must select between **Bitstrips.com** (digital comic strip) or Kerpoof.com (digital animated story) to design two digital comics/stories informing the "10 tips about copyrights that everyone should know". One strip for USA laws, it should be done in English and other for Mexican laws, it should be in Spanish.
· Individual: Write a MLA written report to establish your hypothesis about one possible piracy situation presented in the movie “Pirates of Silicon Valley” (TNT, 1999). Establish if it was a piracy issue or not from your role point of view. Justify (legal, social, ethical and moral point of view)
Note: “Pirates of Silicon Valley” (TNT, 1999) is based in the book “Fire in the Valley” (Freiberger & Swained, 1999). All the ideas presented in the movie are responsibility of it’s authors.
PROCEDURE:
1. Define roles and responsibilities.
2. Pay attention to the movie “Pirates of Silicon Valley” (TNT, 1999), specially in each of the follow situation:
Þ Origin of the first personal computer.
Þ Origin of the first operating system for PC and compatible (DOS).
Þ Origin of the first mouse and GUI (Graphic User Interface).
Þ Origin of the first Windows.
3. After each session you will post your comments and replay someone else in our wiki disscussion board answering the follow questions:
Þ Why this situation is or not a piracy issue? Justify.
Þ Who is the affected side and what should you do if you were in this situation? Explain.
4. Prepare your individual material according with your role focusing in our essential question:
Who can be affected when piracy in technology appears?Is it possible stop piracy in technology? How?
5. Go back to our discussion board answering the main essential questions. This time you must base your opinion on your research and role point of view.
Now you are an important piece of our learning community... Well done!!!
Other recommended material.- The Social Network (2010) available on teathers right now!!!
Timeline
Feb. 25th
Feb. 25th
- Your individual work must be finished and published in the wiki in your assigned page.
- Your Blog article final version must be published in our Piracy Project Blog.
Team members